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Video: Bachmann gets shouty with Sharpton and Meat Loaf

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.13.09 | 12:55 pm

Sean Hannity’s “Great American Panel” last night was anything but. Epitomizing America — if I can interpret the name — were cacophonous guests Rev. Al Sharpton, rocker Meat Loaf and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who had a shoutathon about…

Obama’s army of small donors?

By Paul Demko | 11.24.08 | 11:00 am

A major theme of the presidential campaign was the stunning ability of Barack Obama to tap into an unprecedented universe of donors, many of them outside the realm of fat-cat contributors who typically fill campaign coffers on both sides…

DNC Day four: Obamamania at Mile High

By Paul Demko | 08.28.08 | 11:54 pm

Forty five years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, Barack Obama delivered the performance of his life before 84,000 fervent supporters at Invesco Field at Mile High stadium in Denver. Whether Obama ultimately becomes President of the United States, it will undoubtedly be a speech and a spectacle that will go down in history.